Re: Getting multiple IP addresses using luasocket

[Sean Conner <sean@...>]

It was thus said that the Great Paul K once stated:
> Hi Oliver,
> 
> > socket.dns.toip() calls internally something like gethostbyname, which returns a pointer to a struct hostent.
> > If you don't get this, you may have to change something in the socket library's sources, or in your OS :-)
> 
> I do get the table with ip addresses, but when the domain name can't
> be resolved, I git `nil` and an error message without any aliases or
> alternative IPs.

  Which is to be expected.  DNS is just a distributed key/value (more or
less) database.  If the key you are looking for doesn't exist, there's
nothing to return.

  -spc